A photo collage of ESA's 2026 class of fellows and early career fellows
🎉 Congratulations to ESA’s 8 new Fellows and 10 new Early Career Fellows! These honorees are advancing ecological science through research, leadership, and service.
Learn more about these individuals in our full announcement: https://ow.ly/Ao1V50YK00I
elephants crossing a river
Two new papers from our group! Dutton & Subalusky labs @ufresearch.bsky.social, Frauendorf lab at @colgate.edu, @cgrupstra.bsky.social lab at #FAU, and Post lab at #Yale on how large wildlife reshape ecosystems 🦛🌊🧵
Bring the worlds of science and society together through policy and advocacy with the Brad Fenwick Fellowship for the Advancement of Civic Science. Applications close May 3 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Learn more and apply now: asm.org/articles/pol...
Become an ASM Journals editor! Apply to join the mBio, Spectrum, mSphere or mSystems team by April 24.
📢 Grow your career with ASM Journals!
Apply to become an editor for mBio, mSphere, mSystems or Microbiology Spectrum—now through a single application where you can select your journal of interest.
🔗Apply by April 24: asm.social/2SN
ASM urges Congress to reject proposed cuts to science, research and public health in the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget request and instead build on the investments made in FY2026. Read our statement: asm.org/Articles/Pol...
Looking forward to hearing you talk about your work @ericamhartmann.bsky.social! 🙇♂️
Nice press for our collaborators on the recent paper they led. (with more to come 😀). @sullivan-lab.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social
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A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science.
This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now.
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A poster announcing the next edition of the VEGA (Viral EcoGenomics and Applications) symposium, to be hosted on November 18-19, 2026 in the Pauley Ballroom at UC Berkeley. The text is surrounded by various drawings of phages and viruses, and an capsid-shaped Earth map.
🧬🦠🔬📣 First announcement for the 2026 edition of our Viral EcoGenomics and Applications symposium - VEGA26 will take place November 18 and 19 at UC Berkeley. We'll add more information at jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us... , but save the date already for 2 exciting days of viral ecogenomics !
Environmental microbiology connects climate change, the bioeconomy, and One Health—but not in the way most people think. Microbes control carbon, enable sustainable technologies, and shape health across ecosystems. Brian Badgley, Ph.D., explains why that matters now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fXq...
This image features a banner for the American Academy of Microbiology, announcing a new fellow for the Class of 2026. It includes a headshot of a smiling individual and logos for the American Society for Microbiology and the American Academy of Microbiology.
Congrats to Emiley @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social on being selected as a fellow for the American Academy of Microbiology's Class of 2026. Full story: go.lbl.gov/Eloe-Fadrosh_AAM
More on our Metagenome Program: https://jgi.doe.gov/science-programs/metagenome-program
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Veronica Garcia
From leading R&D in biotech to working for NASA, Veronica Garcia, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the ASM AEM unit, shares her love for microbes and how the AEM unit will advance science-driven solutions in climate change, water systems & food production. asm.org/podcasts/mtm...
Congratulations Fellows!
The American Academy of Microbiology proudly announces the election of 63 fellows to the Class of 2026. Over the past 50 years, the Academy has elected +2,700 distinguished scientists. This year, the new fellows hail from 14 countries. Read press release: asm.social/2OC
#ASLO is honored to announce Dr. Debbie Lindell as the recipient of the 2026 Hutchinson Award for pioneering contributions to understanding how viruses shape marine microbial ecology, revealing host–virus interactions from single cells to entire ocean basins.
Read more: www.aslo.org/aslo-honors-...
Phage infection fronts trigger early sporulation and viral entrapment in bacterial populations
#Bacillussubtilis
#ISMEJournal by Andreea Măgălie et al from @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and @jaytlennon.bsky.social
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Anna Lennon
For #IDWGS, read our interviews with some of Biology Open's #WomeninSTEM first authors.
First up, Anna Lennon is a PhD student at Indiana University, USA, in @jaytlennon.bsky.social’s lab, investigating the evolution of division of the labour system engaged in dormancy. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
The NCKRI National Seed Grant Program is designed to enable investigators to initiate new cave and karst research, and incentivize new principal investigators to enter the field: www.nmt.edu/research/org...
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New work with @ckarakoc.bsky.social and @shoestrapped.bsky.social in @pnas.org
Evolutionary bioenergetics of sporulation
"energetic cost of sporulation in units of ATP by integrating time-resolved genome, transcriptome, and proteome profiles"
#Bsubtilis #MicroSky
#PNAS by @ckarakoc.bsky.social @shoestrapped.bsky.social @jaytlennon.bsky.social
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Want to ride the front of the wave of all-things-microbiology; field work, cultivation, microscopy, molecular, bioinformatics and AI tools? Me too!
Please join us @mblscience.bsky.social for the 2026 Summer Microbial Diversity Course!
Applications due soon.
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Happy to share my solo-authored Perspective "An Interpretation, Survey, and Outlook of Microbial Macroecology"! Making time these last few months to take stock of the patterns us microbial ecologists examine + models we invoke has been invaluable. Feedback welcome!
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Final week to apply for SFI’s 2026 immersive, summer programs in complexity science:
Apply by Feb 4, 2026
CSSS and GWCSS : www.santafe.edu/engage/learn...
Journalism Fellowship: santafe.edu/journalism-f...
Another product from Dr. Ying-Chih 'Ella' Chuang's time in my lab - bacteria that excrete purines are better equipped to tolerate inhibitory effects of purines, suggesting a physiological basis behind some cross-feeding interactions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Last chance! Submit your science. Deadline: Jan. 21, 2 p.m. ET.
Final call to submit your science! General abstract submission for ASM Microbe 2026 closes Jan. 21 at 2 p.m. ET. This is your last chance to present your research at the meeting. Submit now: asm.social/2Mc
We are also accepting poster abstracts to Sustainability Themes:
- Microbes and Climate
- Water Microbiomes
- Microbial Life on Land
- Bioenergy and Beyond
- Feeding the World
-General topics: Ecology, Evolution, Biodiversity; Biogeosciences; Synthetic Biology and Engineering
- Mining “Microbial Dark Matter” with AI
- Eco-evo Dynamics of Phages and HGT
- Coexistence in Microbial Communities
- Long-term Dynamics of Microbiomes
- Traits and Resilience in a Changing Climate
- Policy to Power the Microbes of Future
- Rhizosphere to Pollinators: Agricultural Microbiomes
ALERT: Abstract submission deadline is tomorrow (21 January) for the ASM Applied & Environmental Microbiology Meeting within ASM Microbe 2026 in Washington, D.C. (4-7 June). @asm.org
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🧵 for more information including themes for Contributed Abstracts for In-Depth Sessions:
Abstracts are due on Wednesday y'all.
Lots of cool phage work at this year's meeting. Submit your abstracts soon and come hang out with us! asm.org/events/asm-m...